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Pacific Citizen: The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League

Pacific Citizen: The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League, 28 August 1981, page 1

Pacific Citizen: The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League

Date Original

1981-08-28

Creator

Japanese American Citizens League

Biographical/Historical Note

After December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Relocation Authority (WRA), which selected ten sites in which to imprison more than 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, over half of whom were American citizens. Two of these camps were in the Arkansas Delta, one at Rohwer in Desha County, and the other at Jerome in sections of Chicot and Drew counties. Over 16,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated in these two camps between October 1942 and November 1945. The Japanese American Citizens League was founded in 1929 by existing Nisei organizations in California and Washington and is the oldest Asian American civil rights organization in the United States. Joseph Boone Hunter was born on December 27, 1886, and died in September 1987. His career included teaching in public schools and colleges, serving as an Army chaplain with active foreign service, missionary work in the Far East and Middle East, work in the United States Civil Service, and a score of interim pastorates.

Description

This document is a newspaper titled the Pacific Citizen and it covers a wide range of topics, including the Japanese-American community in the United States.

You Fought Prejudice and Won - Japanese-American Internment Camps in Arkansas

Publisher

Arkansas State Archives

Preferred Citation

Pacific Citizen: The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League, Joseph Boone Hunter Collection, MS.000119, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas

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Pacific Citizen: The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League, 28 August 1981, page 1

Digital Collection

You Fought Prejudice and Won - Japanese-American Internment Camps in Arkansas

Publisher

Arkansas State Archives

Rights and Usage

Use and reproduction of images held by the Arkansas State Archives without prior written permission is prohibited. For information on reproducing images held by the Arkansas State Archives, please call 501-682-6900 or email at state.archives@arkansas.gov.